Gujarat: 26 IITRAM students suspended for ragging

AHMEDABAD: 26 students of Institute of Infrastructure Technology Research and Management (IITRAM), Ahmedabad suspended for their alleged involvement in ragging. As per the report, 150 students studying in the first year were severely ragged. The alleged incident occurred at the end of September this year, the probe committee formed by the institute suspended the accused students.
Five students have been suspended for two semesters and will be barred from appearing for exams for the two semesters. Some 16 students have been suspended for three months and five others for three weeks. The institute has not filed any police complaint yet.

N N Bhupatani, registrar, IITRAM, said, "We received the complaint from the students in September end, after which a 13-member committee was formed to probe into the incident. After completing the investigation, including the checking of CCTV footages and letting the accused students and their parents present their case, the committee has decided to suspend 26 students found to be involved in the ragging incident. The institute authorities had also informed their parents through email in this matter."

The alleged incident had occurred on a Sunday last month, at the reading room located on the sixth floor of the institute. "Students were given forms to fill in, which carried obscene questions. They were made to do sit-ups and catwalk and were put through grilling interviews where they had to answer obscene and embarrassing double-meaning questions. The entire process lasted for some two hours," said an official on condition of anonymity.

Initially, the probe committee members had learnt that only five students were involved in the ragging. However, after examining CCTV footages of the reading room, the committee found that the 26 students of the second year were involved in the incident.

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